GLIMS: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

Monitoring the World's Changing Glaciers

Easy Access to GLIMS Glacier Data

The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project at NSIDC has
implemented a database of glacier outlines from around the world and other
information about glaciers that includes the metadata on how those outlines
were derived. This site provides the ability
to:

Explore data on most of the world's glaciers via interactive maps or by using a
text-based interface (which enables searches by name, classification, area,
etc.).

The GLIMS database and the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) are converging.
The RGI began with GLIMS data and was added to significantly. Now, those
additional outline are being combined with their source information and
being added back into GLIMS. The end result will be a richer and more
complete GLIMS Glacier Database, with different versions of the RGI as
snapshots of the world's glaciers at different times.